Luke Russell column: It's about our rights, not our smoking

7:56 PM,
Mar. 3, 2013

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Editor's note: In response to Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to charge state workers who smoke $50 per month, a proposal which the governor says will generate $2.7 million over two years, Luke Russell, an owner of Titletown Tobacco, writes this:

Governor Walker,

My colleagues and I have supported you in your election and recall election; not only through our voices and votes, but monetarily. We believed that you supported businesses and defended individual rights. Therefore, it is with sorrow, frustration, and confusion that I write this. ...